Ray Quotes

You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.

Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

Family, friends and relationships are the blessings of the God. They are the best way to access God.

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

None of Us is as Good as All of Us.

To see lonely, selfish, empty individuals transformed slowly but surely into warm, loving, wholesome, and happy people is to become aware of why Paul describes Christ as 'unsearchable riches'.

While each of us faces enormous challenges every day, it's not the sins we commit that will define us, its how we respond to them.

I don't decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do a poem, and if it wants to do a play, I do a play. So I'm not in charge, I'm not in control.

To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.

You cannot underestimate the importance of preparation.

I'll be spending the holidays with my family. Nothing special, just some light bickering and biting sarcasm.

I came from an Italian house. The refrigerator was always full. I never knew you had to buy food. I thought there were food fairies that came at night.

When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.

I love my baby like the finest wine, I'll stick with her until the end of time.

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness.'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

I had a prejudice against the British until I discovered that fifty percent of them were female.

People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible for them to make the best choices.

Peace is the music of every heart. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music.

All critics should be assassinated.

Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors.

He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.

As a little kid, I was very shy.

God's standard of judgment goes down to the intents of the heart.

You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

When something goes wrong, smile, cause there's always a next play.

I think that the music we create together is one of a kind.

I was Pac-Man. It was the worst costume ever. You would expect a big round suit, but it was just a mask and a smock with a maze on it.

Rock music is becoming stale. Let's put the fun back.

Notes, usually to be musical, have to move in or out. They don't sound like clarinets!

Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust.

When I turned pro, Muhammad Ali was laying back, and I was able to fill up an area that was empty.

If we could convert 0.03 percent of the sunlight that falls on the earth into energy, we could meet all of our projected needs for 2030.

Everything is beautiful in its own way.

The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

You got to be willing to walk in a storm. That's what I tell people all the time.

Courage is the hallmark of spirituality. Courage comes when you love yourself for who you are.

A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.

Play is just another version of work

Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.

Pity is easy, but it is difficult to care.

Never let the defeat of the past rob you of the success of your future.

People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.

There are two main drivers of asset class returns - inflation and growth.

Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate

Life is a mystery - mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.

Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in.

The test of character is not persistence when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel. The true test is performance and persistence when you see no light coming.